Representative Experience
 

• Defend insurance company in property damage claims.

• Represent shareholders in disputes against other shareholders.

• Defended large retailer in consumer class action lawsuit.

• Represented financial institutions and FDIC in litigation matters.

• Represented companies in construction litigation.

• Defended accounting services firm from professional liability claims.

• Defended investor relations company in litigation with SEC.

• Represented international clients in disputes related to manufacturing and construction financing.

 

 

Honors & Recognitions
 

• AV Preeminent®, MARTINDALE-HUBBELL

• President's Award of Merit, The Florida Bar, 2023

• President's Award of Merit, The Florida Bar, 2022

• President's Award of Merit, The Florida Bar, 2021

• "50 of the Law's Smartest, Most Courageous Innovators, Techies, Visionaries and Leaders, FASTCASE 50, 2021

• Distinguished Leaders Awards, Daily Business Review, 2020

• Trailblazer Award, Asian Pacific American Bar Association of South Florida, 2019

• Top Commercial Litigation, BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA®, 2021-2024

• “Top 100”, FLORIDA SUPER LAWYERS, 2017-2018, 2021-2024

• “Top 100”, MIAMI SUPER LAWYERS, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024

• Rated SUPER LAWYER, 2015-2024

• Top Lawyer, SOUTH FLORIDA LEGAL GUIDE, 2012-2021

• Legal Elite, FLORIDA TREND MAGAZINE, 2008 - 2022

• Abogados Destacados del Sur de la Florida, REVISTAS ABOGADOS, 2013

• President’s Pro Bono Service Award, THE FLORIDA BAR, 2015

• Pro Bono Attorney of the Year, BROWARD LAWYERS CARE, 2014

• Band 4, Litigation: General Commercial, Florida, CHAMBERS USA, 2011-13

• John Edward Smith Child Advocacy Award, LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN AMERICA, 2001

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Professional & Community Activities
 

• The Florida Bar

  • Board of Governors, 2016-24

    • Executive Committee, 2020-24​

    • Co-Chair, Special Committee on Greater Public Access to Legal Services

    • Co-Chair, Special Committee on Changes to the Practice of Law

  • Fellow, Inaugural Class, Leadership Academy

  • Former Chair, Judicial Administration & Evaluation Committee

  • Former Chair, Grievance Committee

  • Former Executive Council Member, Solo & Small Firm Section
     

• Florida Courts Technology Commision

• University of Florida Law Center Association, Board of Trustees

• Former 17th Judicial Circuit Professionalism Magistrate
   

• Broward County Bar Association

  • Former Board of Directors Member

  • Former Chair, Voluntary Bar Liaison Committee
     

• Legal Aid Service of Broward County, Past Chair of the Board

• Coast to Coast Legal Aid of South Florida, Past Chair of the Board

• Asian Pacific American Bar Association of South Florida, Director, Founding Member, and Past President

• National Asian Pacific American Bar Association, Member

• 17th Judicial Circuit Pro Bono Committee, Member

• Fellows of the American Bar Association, Member

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Languages
 

• Fluent in Korean

 

 

Education
 

• University of Florida College of Law, J.D., with honors

  • Executive Research Editor, University of Florida Journal of Law and Public Policy
     

• ​University of Pennsylvania, B.A., Economics

 

 

Bar Admissions

 

• All Florida state courts

• United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit

• United States District Court, Southern, Middle and Northern Districts of Florida

 

 

Professional Background

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• Kim Vaughan Lerner LLP, Managing Partner

• Steel Hector & Davis LLP (now Squire Patton Boggs), Partner

• Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Associate National Bank Examiner

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Related Articles
 

• “Finding the Most Effective Courtroom Persona,” ABA Law Practice Today, July 12, 2018

• Co-Author, “Why Loan Documentation Must Control Lender Behavior,” Commercial Lending Review, July – August 2008
   

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